Ballards plan. IndyStar

[Chaka]

Originally Posted by Dam8610

The inefficiency he was exploiting, and did so quite heavily, was the ability to offer market value level contracts due to the large amount of cap space they had. Most teams had to lower the first year of the contract because of cap constraints. They didn't. That's the inefficiency.

And my point is that as a practical matter, just about any team can offer a "market level contract" if they really want to. It just depends upon how much they are willing to sacrifice future cap flexibility.

And by the way, this will be an issue for the Patriots too because, although Kraft tries to characterize his free agency as some sort of brilliant plan to take advantage of inefficiencies, I don't think the facts bear this out - every one of the contracts I looked at is backloaded to minimize cap usage in 2021 (Nelson Agholor, Jonnu Smith, Hunter Henry, Matt Judon, Henry Anderson). So they'll pay the consequences later for these contracts.

To me, it just reeks of desperation after seeing Brady win one without them.